World War II - Pacific (A-H)

Alamo Scouts: When (and why) formed
Arizona: Exploded U.S. Navy ship which personifies the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor
Banzai Charge: Japanese war tactics
Bataan, Death March: Filipino and American forces in harm's way
- Cabanatuan/O'Donnell POW Camps: Photographs from national archives
- Cabanatuan Rescue: The plan to rescue Batan death-march survivors
- Captured Japanese Photos: From the death march
- Death at Camp O'Donnell: Captives endure worsening misery or death
Children in War: From collecting scraps to growing "victory gardens," children helped in the war effort
Code Talkers: Navajo code, which the Japanese never broke, helped to win the war in the Pacific
Corregidor, Falls - A thousand Japanese invaders defeat 15,000 abandoned defenders
Corregidor, Pleas for Help Ignored: MacArthur pleas for help but none is forthcoming
Declaration of War: President Roosevelt's speech, 8 December 1941
Doolittle's Tokyo Raiders: Flew land-based planes from aircraft carrier
Doolittle's Raiders: War momentum turns against Japan
Empire: Japanese expansion in Pacific region
Friends at Odds: Why were Japan and America at odds?
Hari-Kari: Japanese suicide attacks
Hiroshima: First use of atomic bomb
- B-29, Enola Gay: Dropped bomb on Hiroshima
- B-29, Pilot: Col. Paul W. Tibbets
- Bomb Components: Delivered by USS Indianapolis
- Bomb Run, Initiation Point: Tinian Island
- Casualties: Deaths, injuries and radiation sickness
- Detonation, Specifics: 1,870 feet above ground, 43 seconds post-release
- Ground zero: Aioli Bridge
- Press Release: President Truman to American public
- Reason to Use: President Truman's reasons
- Request to Drop: Original document, Henry Stimson to Truman
- Uranium Bomb: Called "Little Boy"
- Written Approval: By President Truman

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